OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7TH (3 to 5 PM)
Our October Exhibit:
"Oils by Maya Balis and Jacqueline Matute"
On display Oct. 1st- Oct. 31st
OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7TH (3-5pm)
Wine & cheese will be provided!
Maya Balis and Jacqueline Matute are showing their stunning, large scale oil paintings at Arcadia Coffee throughout the month of October.
Maya Balis born in Poland (1978 r.)
1999- graduated from College of Fine Arts (received a Bachelor of Fine Arts
specializing in graphic design and art of painting)
2003-graduate of Institute of Fine Arts at the University in Opole-Poland,
getting a Masters of graphic and art of painting.
Balis came in to USA in 2004, currently living in Stamford Connecticut.
She has had many group and individual exhibitions in Europe and group exhibitions in USA.
Balis' last exhibition was in May 2007 in Greenwich (Art to the Avenue).
"Main subject of my latest works is woman world, fashion, glamours. I love power and magic of bright color so my works are."
Jacqueline Matute
Enter a wavy ocean during twilight. The sun is dipping below the horizon throwing dappled sunlight across the ocean, until it catches a boat. The boat sail's are flapping against the wind, in an attempt to catch the wind. This is a scene from one of the work of Jacqueline Matute.
Matute will be participating in an art show, hosted at Arcadia Coffee, Old Greenwich during the period of this October. Matute is thrilled to show her work at Arcadia stating, "During the several art shows I participated at Arcadia over the past years, I had the opportunity to meet every past owner and become friends."
I am a native of Venezuela, and have brought to the USA an admittedly mixed genre of paintings ... a product of my inspiration, my traditional background, the new culture in which I live, and studies at the Art School Of The Louvre in Paris and the Cultural House of Maracay in Venezuela ... among other things.
My works have been exhibited in France, Spain, Monaco, Canada, the United States, and Venezuela. It has been my experience that they have an appeal to buyers looking for unusual, but not necessarily overly avant-garde visual themes. A frequent compliment I receive from buyers of my paintings is that they find them challenging and that they enjoy living with them. Dr. Hidelgar Rondon, Venezuela Supreme Court Justice says "The quality of her pictures surpasses not only the frontiers of her homeland, but also goes beyond to other people in Europe and America. Her talents remain in time and space".
The main idea for October's show is color. Trying to describe Matute's paintings you would mention that they are very colorful, and displays a rainbow of colors, which can make an ordinary rooster look more like a majestic beast. In Jacqueline's words she would describe her painting as, "My paintings are for liberal tastes, of vibrant exuberant colors. They are as vivid as the exotic; they are just like bosom fair that fill my heart with rejoicing, the subject and inspiration of my work are the reflections of my life."
Jacqueline invites everyone to go to Arcadia and enjoy the exhibit, knowing that you will get moved by the sway of her brush stroked colors.
